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Phone in hand, I stumbled down to the basement of my dorm to talk to her. In the course of her telling me how exciting it was to move into an apartment with her boyfriend, to buy silverware and pots and pans with him, to build a life with another person, I realized much how further along she was than me in developing the relationships and making the decisions that separate adolescence from adulthood. I told her how much I liked my room, my roommates, and my classes, but in comparison to her, I felt silly, immature...
...family goes back to the same little town on a lake every year, and the place itself is as precise a measuring stick as the pencil marks on the kitchen doorway. The basement is a warehouse of outgrown skates and half-finished lanyards. Last summer little sister's feet could barely reach the pedals. This summer she's racing down hills, while big sister is taller than some of my friends, her ears are pierced, her shoes have heels, when she's not barefoot. One summer they went to see the Baha Men; the next summer, La Boheme...
...suspend air operations for 48 hours to allow civilians to leave the stricken towns and villages along the border has given the few remaining residents of this besieged town a brief window to escape the horrors of the battle that engulfed them. The old, frail and sick left their basement shelters, some crawling through the collapsed ruins of the bombed houses above them to pick their way carefully over a field of foot-thick debris that littered the streets. Barely a building remained standing. Some had been reduced to deep craters when struck by massive aerial bombs dropped by Israeli...
...rebuild from this?" asks Sayyed Ali Hakim, a Shi'a cleric dressed in a long light brown tunic, leaning on his cane as he sat on a shaded sidewalk for a rest. He had shared the basement of his old traditional stone house with 70 other people, mainly family. The building above them was destroyed in the fighting and the terrified people hiding below were forced to ration food and water and sit it out. "It was a nightmare," he says. Similar tales are told by other survivors as they slowly trickle out of the underground refuges and make their...
...deserves to return to the White House, this time at its helm. Over the past two months here in Washington, I have seen her enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles—she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence in taking political risks, and her personable manner exude a presidential mystique. Already, many Americans feel this aura...